I've been sleuthing the nexus for the last two weeks. How (im)probable: a lo-fi serving of plain text forum fodder has produced the most startling effects!
To get it out of the way (I really do hate this part, but I suppose I'm a stranger) here's a brief pattering of my patterning. Others have described me as a musician, philosopher, poet, linguist, curious monkey, weirdo and even a diviner. I loathe pigeon holes, save their conventional value. I spend most of my time tangling myself in and out of the ZhouYi, or what's called The Book of Changes. As the oldest of all the Chinese classics it is roughly three thousand years old, and has been the most instructive guide, teacher and partner on my explorations through the circles and cycles of consciousness.
MJ has helped along the way, along with some of her more mystical mates, but it was the aya processes that really threw the floodgates open, drowning the knowledge from my spiritual studies with sweet, earthy intuition. I have always sought the opportunity to experience spice in its pure form, but until recently I lacked the tek-nical knowhow. You all have woven a remarkable resource.
In short, reading your posts and anticipating becoming a part of this community has lifted the half-winked fog of loneliness that I feel among the everyday stream of wonderful characters in my life who would be uncomfortably unwelcoming to a discussion of other realms. What a refreshing prospective alternative to the company I typically find in the writings of sages long expired. They never seem to check their email.
ON TO MORE PRACTICAL MATTERS:
I have yet to do an extraction on my acrb (can't find naphtha where I live yet), but I did want to start off with an ana/aya preparation in combination with syrian rue.
My partner and I tried the following (each) last night:
4g rue, seeds run through a hand-cranked coffee grinder
5g acrb, powdered
added honey and peanut butter to form a paste, fashioned into small TCM-sized balls and swallowed with oat milk.
This is based on
this semi-recent aya post, to which I can't comment as a new member.
We did dieta for a week (don't really care to debate that topic - for me it's about health and conscious respect to the medicine), set our intentions, lit our candles, prepped our setting and were quite disappointed when several hours went by with only mild nausea, faint open-eye trails and no real effect. We eventually went to sleep.
I will say that we feel subtle notes of connectedness today, but it wasn't the kind of full-on healing experience that I was anticipating.
AS A WELCOME PRESENT will someone pretty please point me to a reliable brew tek for acrb and s.rue that they have tried themselves? I want to go back to drinking a traditional tea for now, but am still a brewing virgin. I've read so many conflicting things about egg whites and cold brews and acids and hours that I'd like a guided hand to give me a push.
Thanks and love, Nexus.
-3C